Who caused the First World War? Revisionist historians argue that the war had to be fought because Germany was aggressive and militaristic, a “rogue state” that threatened “the balance of power” and “the peace of Europe”.

Some German leaders were certainly preparing for war, and, once it started, some aimed at a German-dominated continental empire.

But it is equally true that other top Germans were much more cautious, doubting Germany’s ability to win, seeking to avert war and later making overtures for peace, which were rejected....................

What a lod of crap! The commies obviously don't care that the Black Hand had planned the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand at least as far back as 1911!
By the way, today is the 102nd anniversary of his assassination.

It's foolish. People today really do view Germany as "The bad side" in WWI, mostly because they are taught Germany is pure evil, they killed 6 million jews
I wouldnt be suprised if they start telling us there was another holocaust that happened during the first world war. Caused by Germany, ofcourse.
There isnt anyone to blame. All the main powers that participated were just imperialist, wanting to expand the empire.

"People today really do view Germany as "The bad side" in WWI, mostly because they are taught Germany is pure evil, they killed 6 million jews"

( Yes thats the story they teach us Australians.To bad it is an incorrect tall tale.When people mention the nazis to me as an aussie, even though we fought against them, i never fail to mention that, the aussie soldiers/diggers also fought under the "white Australia policy".Usually shuts them up and makes them think a little.)

It's foolish. People today really do view Germany as "The bad side" in WWI, mostly because they are taught Germany is pure evil, they killed 6 million jews
I wouldnt be suprised if they start telling us there was another holocaust that happened during the first world war. Caused by Germany, ofcourse.
There isnt anyone to blame. All the main powers that participated were just imperialist, wanting to expand the empire.

They already did say that. In 1919 at the conference of Versialles, the yehudi told a story that the Germans had killed 6 million of their ilk. No-one beleived them. Less than 30 years later, with the media in their hands, it was done.

The man who sparked WW1: Gavrilo Princip. His assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria set off a series of treaty obligations largely set up by Bismarck 30 years previous in an attempt to balance the European powers much like the Concert of Europe which dominated diplomacy in the 19th century.

No obviously Germany was full blame for the war was wrongful. Unfair war reperations heavily devasted Germany. That is why Hitler brought Germany back to prosperity. Arch Duke Ferdinand's assasination triggered the war, not Germany.

World War I was the result of a number of intertwined treaties that obligated various countries to go to war if any of the countries with whom they had treaties were attacked. Germany was simply one of the countries, along with Russia, France, Austria, etc. that had intertwined treaties.

When Austria moved on Serbia, Russia then attacked Austria. Germany, having a mutual defense pact with Austria, then entered the war to protect Austria, and so on. At the time of Archduke Ferdinand's assasination by a Serbian, England and Germany, each led by cousins in the form of the King of England and the Kaiser, were trying to reconcile their differences. And, as they say, the rest is history.

Although Germany was heavily militarized at the time due to the influence of the Prussians, it would be wrong to blame WWI on Germany alone.

WWII, on the other hand, is a different story, with different causes that go back to either too difficult terms at Versailles (e.g. large reparation payments) or terms that were not difficult enough or not regulated enough...depending on one's point of view.

World War One was begun on flimsy pretexts, and the basic goal was to weaken Germany, which was a financial and political threat to England and France. The German Empire was still in its infancy compared to Britain, but Germany was doing very well with rapidly growing industry and a strong, efficient military. She was expanding trade and had new colonies, and this made England jealous. England had been top dog for a long time, controlling a fourth of the earth's surface at one time( and using various militaristic and inhumane tactics to control it like starving out its opponents.)
France (who had historically bullied Germany through the ages..in fact, making over 40 separate bloody incursions into German lands at various times)was still fuming because Bismarck had taken BACK the Alsace.They had vowed revenge.
Foremost, however, Germany was a financial rival to certain vested interests. Money,money,money...it was money, palin and simple, and Germany was getting too rich.
Had the US not entered the war, Germany might well have won, or at least peace terms would have eventually been ironed out. Britain was desperate to get the USA involved. Through intense manipulation, they succeeded. Their pro war propaganda combined with the pro England/ hate- German propaganda by their buddies in the states resulted in the biggest ethnic assault in history...on Germans. See <www.exulanten.com/hysteria> where there is a good discussion you won't see in the regular media.
Whatever the cause, it laid the framework for the next war, one which murdered another generation of young European men.